Re: Who actually started adding the .exe extension to Amiga programs?
category: offtopic [glöplog]
3-letter file suffixes came about because BBSes used PCs, not Amigas. It's also the cause for not-880KB-split archives since PC could only do 720K.
PCs got the suffixes from 1970s CP/M, because IBM asked Microsoft if they had an OS, they had nothing and lied to IBM and then pirated CP/M.
No OS needs extensions to signify file type. To this day, you see all kinds of 2026 modern security antivirus etc (yada yada) services and programs hanging up on suffixes and not even bothering to check file type. All of these people suck very badly at everything security related and know nothing at all about files.
A real OS signifies its file type by its actual contents. As a result, no files on Amiga needs a file suffix or file type. Now, obviously I'm a great Amiga fan, but all that I have said is also true to a computer scientist.
Unfortunately, CSci is not looked up to since the past 35 years, and what we have now is INSTEAD of perfectly crash free programs and secure software.
PCs got the suffixes from 1970s CP/M, because IBM asked Microsoft if they had an OS, they had nothing and lied to IBM and then pirated CP/M.
No OS needs extensions to signify file type. To this day, you see all kinds of 2026 modern security antivirus etc (yada yada) services and programs hanging up on suffixes and not even bothering to check file type. All of these people suck very badly at everything security related and know nothing at all about files.
A real OS signifies its file type by its actual contents. As a result, no files on Amiga needs a file suffix or file type. Now, obviously I'm a great Amiga fan, but all that I have said is also true to a computer scientist.
Unfortunately, CSci is not looked up to since the past 35 years, and what we have now is INSTEAD of perfectly crash free programs and secure software.
